As part of the Swift community (and the Objective-C and Mac/iOS community for years before that), I disagree that there's no community around Swift. I think the

As part of the Swift community (and the Objective-C and Mac/iOS community for years before that), I disagree that there's no community around Swift. I think the problem is that it's still very Apple platforms focused. If you're an iOS developer, you'll find a big community, and one that has been focused on Swift specifically for the past 6 years (to the point that there are complaints about that, e.g. https://twitter.com/phughes/status/1307024158275112965 https://twitter.com/phughes/status/1307024158275112965). There are many conferences every year (well, until this year), plenty of people on Twitter, blogs, multiple community Slack teams, etc. Just in my local area (metro area of ~2 million) we have a 750 person strong, very active Slack team for iOS/Mac/Swift development, and two separate monthly in-person meetup groups (again, before COVID). If I were a Swift developer focused on Linux or Windows, though, it'd be a whole different story. The author of the linked blog post is a member of the Swift core team, and did most of the work to bring Swift to Windows himself, but outside of him, I don't really know anyone particularly focused on it. (I've also made a very decent living for 15 years developing almost exclusively for Apple platforms, so I disagree with your last paragraph too, but that's another thing altogether.)